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PYSEC-2014-41

Quick fix

PYSEC-2014-41 — plone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.2.3'

Details

python_scripts.py in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large value, related to formatColumns.

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Affected packages

PyPI/plone

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.2.3

Fixpip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.2.3'

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1[WEB]
https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106[WEB]
https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/15[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wrf2-2rch-cmr9[ADVISORY]